“A vase of tulips, more disheveled and past their prime than he usually allows his subjects to get, is perched perilously on the edge of a table; one tulip at far left is about to swan-dive into the abyss. It is one of Mapplethorpe’s most unforgettable images.” John Ashbery, Robert Mapplethorpe: Pistils, Introduction
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